According to nearly a dozen retired officers and current military lawyers, as well as scholars who teach at West Point and Annapolis, an intense if quiet debate is underway inside the U.S. military community about what orders it would be obliged to obey if President-elect Donald Trump decides to follow through on his previous warnings that he might deploy troops against what he deems domestic threats, including political enemies, dissenters and immigrants.

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  • @FiremanEdsRevenge
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    1197 hours ago

    The constitution is your oath, not the president. Acknowledge that this administration is a domestic threat and deal with it.

    • @ChonkyOwlbear
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      386 hours ago

      The Praetorian Guard killed something like 13 emperors. Food for thought.

      • @Kyrgizion
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        51 hour ago

        In their defense, they killed more terrible emperors than good ones.

        Pertinax though… I’ll never forgive them for that. Who knows how the entire world would look now if he’d been emperor for a decade or more…

      • @rottingleaf
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        94 hours ago

        Also installed its own. All power goes both ways.

        In any case, even in US history military has been used against US citizens too. Not many things can really be new.

    • ThrowawayOnLemmy
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      7 hours ago

      Didn’t you hear? Apparently if we vote for it, a domestic threat is allowed to just walk on in and do his thing.

      • HubertManne
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        145 hours ago

        eyup. surprisingly voting for hitler gets you hitler. I was surprised pikachu as anybody about it.